[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Don't zero out buffer in sched_getaffinity

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Don't zero out buffer in sched_getaffinity

[Mike McCormack]

The kernel doesn't fill the buffer provided to sched_getaffinity
with zero bytes, so neither should QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mj.mccormack@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 linux-user/syscall.c |   13 +------------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 1cda10a..e53b7e5 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -6384,20 +6384,9 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
             ret = get_errno(sys_sched_getaffinity(arg1, mask_size, mask));
 
             if (!is_error(ret)) {
-                if (arg2 > ret) {
-                    /* Zero out any extra space kernel didn't fill */
-                    unsigned long zero = arg2 - ret;
-                    p = alloca(zero);
-                    memset(p, 0, zero);
-                    if (copy_to_user(arg3 + ret, p, zero)) {
-                        goto efault;
-                    }
-                    arg2 = ret;
-                }
-                if (copy_to_user(arg3, mask, arg2)) {
+                if (copy_to_user(arg3, mask, ret)) {
                     goto efault;
                 }
-                ret = arg2;
             }
         }
         break;
-- 
1.7.0.4